AARYN
It was two, torturous days before Aaryn was brave enough to show his face with the Outsiders. On the third morning after Elreth had challenged her father he climbed towards the cave the Outsiders had adopted as an unofficial meeting place when he was still adolescent. He was going to have some explaining to do. But he was distracted. He knew Elreth was scheduled to meet with the Security Council that day and it was making him tense. He had no doubt the females would give her a chance. But the males? They'd been a headache even for Reth. How were they going to take a young female?
He reached the trail that cut out of the side of the mountain just below the cave and pulled himself up. No one was outside, but he knew they'd be in there—and probably pissed that he hadn't come the day before.
What was he going to tell them? He'd been too busy feeling sorry for himself?
